[PATCH 2/2] Add a message to run 'pytest' to run rest of test suite.

[Sebastian Huber]

On 16/03/2020 21:01, Sebastian Huber wrote:

> On 16/03/2020 20:26, Amar Takhar wrote:
>
>> I should have also added some of my own reasons why pytest is better 
>> for writing
>> tests in Python:
>>
>>    - Fantastic exception handling makes it far easier to debug test 
>> and code.
>>      PDB works seamlessly.
>>    - Far less overhead in creating initial tests.
>>    - Trivial fixture support
>>    - Paramaterised tests -- this is incredibly essential / useful.
>>
>> Another feature that's not often mentioned is pytest discovers tests 
>> all on its
>> own.  You can put a test anywhere labled test_*.py and it will work.  
>> You can
>> run pytest anywhere in the source as well.
>>
>> The above are starkly different from unittest where these features 
>> don't exist
>> or are difficult / have a large overhead to implement.
>
> Ok, I guess I have to adjust my draft of the Python guidelines:
>
> https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/devel/2020-March/058289.html

I converted an example test from unittest to pytest:

https://git.rtems.org/sebh/rtems-qual.git/commit/?id=823c74c5d68a5b0913eba2bd9202897cb883dcef

Using plain assert statements is quite nice. Also the "tmpdir" fixture 
is really nice.

Chris, what do you think about using pytest in favour of the standard 
Python unitttest?